How should we define frontend development?

Yamo Gebrewold
1 min readOct 4, 2020

Frontend development is a term widely used today with different intentions behind it. Some people refer to it while meaning UX and UI design. Others think that it is nothing but a bit of HTML, CSS and a sparkle of jQuery.

Even though those are aspects of frontend development and parts of it that shouldn't be underestimated or looked down upon in any sense, a frontend developer is expected to know a lot more than the basics.

JavaScript is the core frontend language on the Web, and since it is the primary language that runs in the…

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Yamo Gebrewold

A software engineer with a passion to learn and teach.